Accessing available applications from CLI?

[Johannes Graumann]

Hi,

Is there a way to use the CLI to

1) access what apps a VM has available

and

2) which of them should be shown in the menue?

Sincerely, Joh

[Johannes Graumann]

No insight, anybody?

Sincerely, Joh

[Patrik Hagara]

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On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 08:39 +0200, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Is there a way to use the CLI to
>
> 1) access what apps a VM has available

You can find the .desktop files for all available
programs here:

/var/lib/qubes/vm-templates/<templatename>/apps.templates/

> 2) which of them should be shown in the menue?

And when you enable a particular app in an AppVM, the
.desktop file template is copied over to

/var/lib/qubes/appvms/<vmname>/apps/

and all instances of %VMNAME% from the template's
.desktop file get replaced by the AppVM's name.

Sadly, I am not aware of any "proper" Qubes CLI tool
to facilitate the above steps. You can, however,
launch the GUI version of app selector -- it's called
`qubes-vm-settings`, and optionally takes a VM name
and the settings tab name as arguments, eg:

qubes-vm-settings personal applications

HTH
- -- Patrik
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[Johannes Graumann]

On Tue, 2017-05-16 at 06:26 -0700, Patrik Hagara wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 08:39 +0200, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> > Is there a way to use the CLI to
> >
> > 1) access what apps a VM has available
>
> You can find the .desktop files for all available
> programs here:
>
> /var/lib/qubes/vm-templates/<templatename>/apps.templates/
>
> > 2) which of them should be shown in the menue?
>
> And when you enable a particular app in an AppVM, the
> .desktop file template is copied over to
>
> /var/lib/qubes/appvms/<vmname>/apps/
>
> and all instances of %VMNAME% from the template's
> .desktop file get replaced by the AppVM's name.
>
> Sadly, I am not aware of any "proper" Qubes CLI tool
> to facilitate the above steps. You can, however,
> launch the GUI version of app selector -- it's called
> `qubes-vm-settings`, and optionally takes a VM name
> and the settings tab name as arguments, eg:
>
> qubes-vm-settings personal applications

Thank you for your insight. I was hoping for more comfortable CLI
tools, as I am managing my entire setup using ansible ... I shall go
and investigate the files you point out.

Sincerely, Joh